Sick of running {{{django-admin}}} repeatedly to {{{init}}} your site and {{{install}}} each of your apps when you've made lots of changes to the model? {{{miniflush.py}}} will do all the heavy lifting for you: {{{ #!python import os from os.path import isdir, isfile, join, dirname import django.core.management, django.core def find_site(): """Find the site by looking at the environment.""" try: settings_module = os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] except KeyError: raise AssertionError, "DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE not set." settingsl = settings_module.split('.') site = __import__(settingsl[0]) settings = __import__(settings_module, {}, {}, settingsl[-1]) return site, settings def delete_db(settings): """Delete the old database.""" engine = settings.DATABASE_ENGINE if engine == 'sqlite3': try: os.unlink(settings.DATABASE_NAME) except OSError: pass elif engine == 'mysql': import _mysql s = _mysql.connect(host=settings.DATABASE_HOST, user=settings.DATABASE_USER, passwd=settings.DATABASE_PASSWORD) for cmd in ['drop database if exists %s', 'create database %s']: s.query(cmd % settings.DATABASE_NAME) else: raise AssertionError, "Unknown database engine %s", engine def init_and_install(site): """Initialise the site and install any applications. Applications are found by looking for ``sitename/apps`` in sitename.apps.""" django.core.management.init() appdir = join(dirname(site.__file__), 'apps') for name in [name for name in os.listdir(appdir) if isdir(join(appdir, name)) and isfile(join(appdir, name, '__init__.py'))]: try: app = django.core.meta.get_app(name) django.core.management.install(app) except AttributeError, ex: pass # Exercise for reader: be more specific def main(): """Flush it all, baby!""" try: site, settings = find_site() delete_db(settings) init_and_install(site) except AssertionError, ex: print ex.args[0] if __name__ == '__main__': main() }}}